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TECTONOPHYSICS
Volume 649, Issue -, Pages 58-67Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.02.023
Keywords
Stress field; Focal mechanism; Earthquake fault; Earthquake potential; Absolute differential stress
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- Observation and Research Program for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions (MEXT)
- MEXT KAKENHI [26109004]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26109004] Funding Source: KAKEN
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One approach that can be used to evaluate the potential for an earthquake occurrence is the detection of the stress concentration at an earthquake fault. While the stress fields for pre- and post-seismic event stages differ, this change cannot provide informatibn regarding the potential for an earthquake. Here, we propose a detection method for states of stress that uses focal mechanism data from microearthquakes. The state of stress can be defined both by the background stress and by a moment tensor equivalent to the stress concentration. We applied this method to actual focal mechanism data from the 2013 Awaji Island earthquake (M6.3), japan, and the results showed the presence of stress concentration around the earthquake fault before the mainshock. In addition, the regional differential stress was shown to be about 13 MPa. The magnitude of the obtained stress concentration in the focal area and the high dip angle of the mainshock fault imply that the faulting occurred in the crust where it was overpressurized to a level near the lithostatic pressure. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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